LAET, Joannes de (Latin: Ioannes Latius). 1581 or 1593 — buried 15.12.1649. Flemish Geographer, Philologist and Naturalist, who wrote from secondary sources a well known book on India. Son of a cloth merchant from Antwerpen, he was student of Erpenius and Scaliger at Leiden. Worked as merchant, in 1620 one…
LADONNE, ?. 18?? — 1???. French self-taught Sanskritist in Bordeaux, where he gave a “cours libre de sanskrit” at Faculté de Lettres in 1886–89. Sources: Briefly mentioned in Bongard-Levin, Vigasin & Lardinois 2002.
LINDACH, Hans, nom-de-plume of —> WELLER, Hermann.
LEUPOL, Louis —> LELOUP DE CHEROY, François
LAWTON, S. K. = LAWTON, Swaminathan Kanakaratnam, a Tamil photographer and archaeologist in Sri Lanka (fl. 1871).
LANGENHOVE, George Charles van. 1892 — 1943 (when 51). Belgian Linguist. Ord. Professor of General, IE and Germanic Linguistics and of Sanskrit at Gent Universty (1935 there). Publications: Wrote on linguistics, e.g. Linguistische Studiën. 1-3. Rijksunwersitet te Gent, Werken uitgegeven door Faculteit van de Wijsbegeerte en Letteren ??, 87 &…
LACROZE, M. V. de —> VEYSSIÈRE DE LACROZE, Mathurin.
LYAPUNOV —> LJAPUNOV
LUBOCKAJA, Natalija Julianovna. Moscow 24.2.1933 — 4.1.1985. Russian Indologist. Daughter of an official. Graduated 1955 from Moscow National Pedagogical Institute, 1958 passed foreign language courses. Kand. ist. nauk 1972. In 1957-76 naučnyj sotrudnik at Oriental Institute of Soviet Academy in Moscow. Publications: about 10 publications, e.g.: – kand diss. Drevneindijsk.…
LOMAN, Johannes Reinoud Abraham. Amsterdam 1908 — 1976. Dutch Indologist. Studied history at Amsterdam and worked as teacher of history. After the WW II studies of Indology under Scharpé, Galestin and van Lohuizen-de Leeuw. Ph.D. 1956 Amsterdam, under Scharpé. In 1958-73 worked on ABIA in Leiden. Publications: translated: De Wolkbode…